I think he went down a little harder in the comic. The ship that the Transformers arrived on earth in was repaired and gotten into space again, but it was eventually crashed back into the earth again with Galvatron on it. So he survived something that put the original G1 Transformers out of commission for millions of years, albeit badly injured. After that he got slapped around and shot up by Fortress Maximus before being knocked into the icy water, so there was a bit more to put him down.
Yes. He got in a duel with Soundwave where the two of them nearly killed each other. They were then resurrected, as Twincast (blue Blaster) and Soundblaster (black Soundwave).
I'm almost certain someone must have mentioned this already, but you can buy the complete Headmasters series on DVD most anywhere as of earlier this year!
There was plenty of time for Galvatron to just fly out of the water but the plot required him to be stupid enought to just basicly sit there and wait to be crushed.
The post 1986-movie cartoon is still G1. Cartoon wise, Generation 2 was just reruns of old episodes with some fairly pointless computer generated sequences used to link scenes together(a sort of replacement for the old bits where you saw an Autobot/Decepticon symbol swap around). Toywise, G2 included some new toys and recoloured old ones, as well as a new comic series.
@LordZast You'll also recall that every gun right down to a (human's) police sidearm was a blaster of some kind, while Megatron turned into a WW2 era German Luger with carbine mods. Not exactly something that would be waved around in an eighties cartoon, unless it was an after school special, in which case some kid would pick him up, accidently shoot his dog, then get turned over to the proper authorities.
@Foxstab I've watched ALL of them. And to my knowledge, Skyfire was the only one to actually get buried in ice for millions of years at any point. And he technically wasn't even a decepticon because he got stuck there BEFORE the great war! And he still gets buried in ice AGAIN only for the Autobots to dig him out again in the next episode when they need a taxi.
Little known fact: Galvatron used to win first place in all of the Cybertron ballet competitions. He usually killed all of the other competitors though.
@MDthornton83 Basically TF 1986 was a kids movie done properly. Great characters dying in battle, the shots from both sides actually hit each other (some times).
Thanks for posting this. I've heard about Galvy being buried under the ice but I've never seen the clip! ... and, yes, it's incredibly lame. Megatron and his flunkies were submerged in LAVA and survived. Megs survived an explosion that knocked fuckin' CYBERTRON out of Earth's orbit. Galvatron "bathed" in "plasma" -- molten rock, anyway -- for up to a YEAR and came out a bit nuts but otherwise unscathed. And I seem to recall TFs being buried under many tons of rock throughout G1 ...
i've never seen headmasters on TV before. and my first season that I saw was G1 then i skipped a while then resumed with RID. so when i heard them all say "x-formation" i thought they would combine. :D
I think that might honestly be the site in question. Cheers! I'm pretty certain the site went down for a while or moved server, because I used to have it bookmarked.
I wish Hasbro would do a ShoutFactory type re-release of these but with the original voice actors. Sales MIGHT be high and might not. But imagine all the G1 kids today buying them for their kids and generating the excitement that way.
This is the cheesiest death I've ever seen. Somehow the writers forgot that Galvatron can fly, and would have easily escaped that pit before it caved in.
Wasn't he just taking a bath in it, rather than being stuck there. Regardless, it is a pretty fair comparison, as being dunked in lava for any length of time and emerging unscathed is a sign of genuine hardness.
I always wondered if they did that so they wouldn't forget what they were doing like half-way through. Imagine how embarrassing that would be tooling around only half transformed!
wow, what a "crushing" defeat! I guess you could say that Galvatron was "put on ice" and that he got served his "just deserts" and that revenge is "a dish best served cold", and, yeah that's all I have.
This is why I prefer the American cartoons (and the American dub of Transformers Armada). They may not ditch villains in violent ways, BUT their methods make more sense to an adult.
I completely agree. The headmasters go skydiving and that ends the former herald of Unicron??? Those Japanese TF cartoons were amazingly bad. So glad we never got them over here. I'd have nightmares.
dont know about animated, but Beast Wars was a very good show that had a lot of dark episodes in it. I liked it a lot. Though I believe the transformers series direct after the movie were pretty good too to an extent (G2?). I just disliked how they turned galvatron into a lunatic.
So Galvatron survives the explosion of an entire planet at ground zero but he can't survive getting thrown into the water and getting buried by ice? I mean, seriously now... it's like the Shredder being able to survive a garbage compactor in the first TMNT movie (in his regular form as well) but yet not surviving a couple falling pieces of wood as Super Shredder.
Everybody should write into HASBRO and plead with them to Americanize (voice over) the rest of all the Headmaster Episodes. Even though the animation is out dated, and the death scenes are cheesy now. It would still be awesome to hear all the original voice actors over these last Headmaster episodes. I'd buy them that's for sure.
Galvatron: I may have lost to a Sailormoon finisher...but at least this episode will never make it to the United States! HAHAHAHAHAAA!......urrrrkgh....*dies*
What was that all about? Holding hands kills baddies? Yeah right, Galvatron probably came back later and kicked all their sorry, hand holding flowery asses
Then again, Hasbro, the creator of the Transformers toyline, and the first series, is an American-based company. Meaning, the first Transformers spoke English.
Geez these headmaster really killed the TFers off in many ways. Credit to TFAnimated, it did know when to quit. Where as G1 went out with a wimper(the 1986 movie was awesome but it went dull after.).
@MDthornton83 I did like the recent Transformers Animated though. They did a good job on the characters and actuall had good plots and did hurt and kill some of them.
i read the comments before to reply to them.. and for the question "Galvatron or Unicron who would you think would win? " i said "are you kidding? galvatron doesnt have a minimum chance against unicron!! unicron can beat him with only one touch.. " and what do you mean by lie down?
@Takeshi357 Have you ever watched actually Transformers? The real original one - G1 that is. This is a classic downfall of Decepticons - get buried under ice. Puts them out of the picture for a good two million years or so until someone digs them out. It's also a useful plot device for writers to take a character out of the loop and to leave it in a state where it can be brought back whenever it is called for.
on a side note thats why galvatron is bat shit crazy from then on in....apperently the lava got in and messed up his head pretty bad...where in the movie he was evil but had some smarts to him
@Takeshi357 Then maybe it was lava. I honestly don't remember off-hand, but I can swear something similar has been done several times when they wanted to put a character on hold only to 'unfreeze' him back onto the story later or whatever. At any rate, it's a cheap trick and writers use it a lot.
I don't know why everyone says this is the end of Galvatron...I mean, he exploded underwater after being crushed by ice? Really? I mean, the guy was hurled out of Unicron and flew through space and ended up head first in a mud bath for years, and THIS is how he died? Honestly, I see no evidence he's actually dead...I didn't see any parts or debris floating around after the explosion. Just saying, he's most likely still alive.
Actually, Headmasters, Masterforce, and Victory were dubbed in the UK when these series aired in Japan. The dubbing is horrible, and badly translated. Luckily I have all the subtitled versions.
I don't think he is dead. He was covered in ice when they hit the spot he is at and I don't see any body parts. I think he just frozen in ice for a time until he can get of the ice. He wil be back when some Decepticon tries to take his place.
The series lasted 35 episodes so it ran fairly well in Japan. It lasted much longer than the weaker season 4 of the US. I'll admit that the American storylines are better but the Headmasters concept in Japan is much better than the U.S. version.
that wasn't really a true end to megatron, I mean all they did was bury him in ice, like that would stop a giant alien robot with a HEAT-based blaster on his arm!
Can't imagine a little ice killing the strongest Decepticon that ever lived. He survived months in a volcano after all.
Dear Galvatron, there is no need to be stuck in the water when you can fly.
Properly done indeed. With some serious themes. With the whole brutality of war and the number of casualties on both sides.
I think he went down a little harder in the comic. The ship that the Transformers arrived on earth in was repaired and gotten into space again, but it was eventually crashed back into the earth again with Galvatron on it. So he survived something that put the original G1 Transformers out of commission for millions of years, albeit badly injured.
After that he got slapped around and shot up by Fortress Maximus before being knocked into the icy water, so there was a bit more to put him down.
Japan had its own unique run of the Transformers G1 series that started after the end of series 3. It begins roughly where Headmasters did.
Well, it did have a couple pretty dramatic moments, like Blaster and Soundwave finally having an all-out duel.
The power of friendship always wins.
Yes. He got in a duel with Soundwave where the two of them nearly killed each other. They were then resurrected, as Twincast (blue Blaster) and Soundblaster (black Soundwave).
The weirdest part of this video is how the hell Galvatron and the Headmasters suddenly teleported from the Grand Canyon to the North Pole. o_O
Y'know, I can't really recall a lot of instances of Megatron's gun form being used for disguise either.
I'm almost certain someone must have mentioned this already, but you can buy the complete Headmasters series on DVD most anywhere as of earlier this year!
I'm glad that the Headmasters finished off Galvatron. And they did for all the Autobots who lives he took when he was Megatron!
So wait, four oompaloompas hold hands, float, and shoot rings of friendships at ice, causing it to fall on him? LAME!
This is a bigger insult to Galvatron than Micheal Bay making him into a remote controlled Semi.
galvatron is not controlled in transformers 4
Dancing Mad
My comment was made when all we knew of TF4 and Galvatron's role was that he was controlled by Humans.
oh sorry about that
It's cool, no prob
This fight shall go down as #4 as the top 5 WTFS in transformers.
YOU ARE NO MATCH AGAINST THE POWER OF LOVE GALVATRON!
There was plenty of time for Galvatron to just fly out of the water but the plot required him to be stupid enought to just basicly sit there and wait to be crushed.
I wonder why galvatron fusion cannon can kill Starscream by one shot (movie) but did not kill one of the headmaster here
The post 1986-movie cartoon is still G1.
Cartoon wise, Generation 2 was just reruns of old episodes with some fairly pointless computer generated sequences used to link scenes together(a sort of replacement for the old bits where you saw an Autobot/Decepticon symbol swap around).
Toywise, G2 included some new toys and recoloured old ones, as well as a new comic series.
It's called "the head formation of friendship" and IIRC, it's more powerful when the nebulons ditch the bigger sized transector bodies
It's the ballet-pose kick that does it for me.
Ice, the ever worst enemy of a transformer since G1 (skyfire/jetfire).
@LordZast You'll also recall that every gun right down to a (human's) police sidearm was a blaster of some kind, while Megatron turned into a WW2 era German Luger with carbine mods. Not exactly something that would be waved around in an eighties cartoon, unless it was an after school special, in which case some kid would pick him up, accidently shoot his dog, then get turned over to the proper authorities.
Hasbro is easy to contact on their site. Just surf around and you'll find it. But when you submit your idea be sure to click "Finish submitting"
@Foxstab I've watched ALL of them. And to my knowledge, Skyfire was the only one to actually get buried in ice for millions of years at any point. And he technically wasn't even a decepticon because he got stuck there BEFORE the great war!
And he still gets buried in ice AGAIN only for the Autobots to dig him out again in the next episode when they need a taxi.
Little known fact:
Galvatron used to win first place in all of the Cybertron ballet competitions. He usually killed all of the other competitors though.
@MDthornton83 Basically TF 1986 was a kids movie done properly. Great characters dying in battle, the shots from both sides actually hit each other (some times).
Thanks for posting this. I've heard about Galvy being buried under the ice but I've never seen the clip!
... and, yes, it's incredibly lame. Megatron and his flunkies were submerged in LAVA and survived. Megs survived an explosion that knocked fuckin' CYBERTRON out of Earth's orbit. Galvatron "bathed" in "plasma" -- molten rock, anyway -- for up to a YEAR and came out a bit nuts but otherwise unscathed. And I seem to recall TFs being buried under many tons of rock throughout G1 ...
i've never seen headmasters on TV before. and my first season that I saw was G1 then i skipped a while then resumed with RID. so when i heard them all say "x-formation" i thought they would combine. :D
Ni optimus ni rodimus pudieron lo que hicieron aqui tan simple estos robotos.
"Comeandhelpmesomebodyquicklyyyyyyyyy"
Galvatron: survive an entire planet exploding while in ground zero, suffer defeat under a couple of tonnes of ice.
and then galvatron awoke from that nightmare and wondered what the hell the other decepticons put in his energon
I think that might honestly be the site in question. Cheers!
I'm pretty certain the site went down for a while or moved server, because I used to have it bookmarked.
They used the power of friendship.
I wish Hasbro would do a ShoutFactory type re-release of these but with the original voice actors. Sales MIGHT be high and might not. But imagine all the G1 kids today buying them for their kids and generating the excitement that way.
This is the cheesiest death I've ever seen. Somehow the writers forgot that Galvatron can fly, and would have easily escaped that pit before it caved in.
His continued operations and function in the Decepticon faction have been suspended pending further deep investigation onto his marine activities.
jajaja pensé que estarpia en ingles y POW!!! esta en japónes... realmente me sorprendí, jajaja es interesante escucharlo así (Y)
" Full on Friendship!" quote Billy.
Wasn't he just taking a bath in it, rather than being stuck there.
Regardless, it is a pretty fair comparison, as being dunked in lava for any length of time and emerging unscathed is a sign of genuine hardness.
He survived explosion of planet but he wasn't able to survive iceberg impacts XD
I always wondered if they did that so they wouldn't forget what they were doing like half-way through.
Imagine how embarrassing that would be tooling around only half transformed!
wow, what a "crushing" defeat! I guess you could say that Galvatron was "put on ice" and that he got served his "just deserts" and that revenge is "a dish best served cold", and, yeah that's all I have.
I never knew, until now, that ice could explode!
Who would have known that Galvatron would have been killed by other transformers holding hands.
@Rickettson
well, you might just say that his assets were frozen.
he and soundwave killed each other and both got rebuilt into twincast and soundblaster respectively
This is why I prefer the American cartoons (and the American dub of Transformers Armada). They may not ditch villains in violent ways, BUT their methods make more sense to an adult.
@EmperorofCartoons
I honestly had no idea he'd fallen on such hard times.
A fitting end to Galvatron after what was done to Magnus. Kind of like what Comcast customers should do banning together to cancel Comcast.
Somehow makes more sense for transforming robots from outer space to be speaking Japanese.
I completely agree. The headmasters go skydiving and that ends the former herald of Unicron??? Those Japanese TF cartoons were amazingly bad. So glad we never got them over here. I'd have nightmares.
dont know about animated, but Beast Wars was a very good show that had a lot of dark episodes in it. I liked it a lot. Though I believe the transformers series direct after the movie were pretty good too to an extent (G2?). I just disliked how they turned galvatron into a lunatic.
I was always sad we didn't get these episodes in North America...until now :/
Welll... at least is nice to see the Headmasters in a show...
After this there was a manga where Galvatron came back
as Super Megatron.
I heard they had another series after this where Galvatron return as Super God Megatron or something and Optimus also as a "Super God" as well.
So Galvatron survives the explosion of an entire planet at ground zero but he can't survive getting thrown into the water and getting buried by ice? I mean, seriously now... it's like the Shredder being able to survive a garbage compactor in the first TMNT movie (in his regular form as well) but yet not surviving a couple falling pieces of wood as Super Shredder.
Everybody should write into HASBRO and plead with them to Americanize (voice over) the rest of all the Headmaster Episodes. Even though the animation is out dated, and the death scenes are cheesy now. It would still be awesome to hear all the original voice actors over these last Headmaster episodes. I'd buy them that's for sure.
I think he was destroyed, then later rebuilt in his blue form.
Galvatron: I may have lost to a Sailormoon finisher...but at least this episode will never make it to the United States! HAHAHAHAHAAA!......urrrrkgh....*dies*
Dunno if it's been commented earlier, but looks more like a 'care bear stare' to me. XD
it is season 5. there was no english release for it but its still season 5...
@sloththemighty Ultra Magnus probably without the red and blue parts that make him bigger.
What was that all about? Holding hands kills baddies? Yeah right, Galvatron probably came back later and kicked all their sorry, hand holding flowery asses
the description for this vid is hillarious
Then again, Hasbro, the creator of the Transformers toyline, and the first series, is an American-based company. Meaning, the first Transformers spoke English.
The funny thing about this is Metroplex and Fortess Maximus in the same cartoon.
this is not really G1, is the first detour beetween the timeline of TF EEUU and TF in Japan
Geez these headmaster really killed the TFers off in many ways. Credit to TFAnimated, it did know when to quit. Where as G1 went out with a wimper(the 1986 movie was awesome but it went dull after.).
as a fan, i agree 100% also.
@MDthornton83 I did like the recent Transformers Animated though. They did a good job on the characters and actuall had good plots and did hurt and kill some of them.
the Japanese version seems a lot more serious. i'd be interested in watching the series subtitled.
i read the comments before to reply to them.. and for the question "Galvatron or Unicron who would you think would win? " i said "are you kidding? galvatron doesnt have a minimum chance against unicron!! unicron can beat him with only one touch.. "
and what do you mean by lie down?
because certain elelments of this story conflict with the "rebirth" episodes
@Takeshi357 Have you ever watched actually Transformers? The real original one - G1 that is. This is a classic downfall of Decepticons - get buried under ice. Puts them out of the picture for a good two million years or so until someone digs them out. It's also a useful plot device for writers to take a character out of the loop and to leave it in a state where it can be brought back whenever it is called for.
well considering Unicron is a "Planet" sized robot, my money would be on him.
on a side note thats why galvatron is bat shit crazy from then on in....apperently the lava got in and messed up his head pretty bad...where in the movie he was evil but had some smarts to him
he still come bk after that n/e way lol
@Takeshi357
Ah, which planet did he survive the explosion of?
@LordZast I think unicron counts as a planet.
@Takeshi357 Then maybe it was lava. I honestly don't remember off-hand, but I can swear something similar has been done several times when they wanted to put a character on hold only to 'unfreeze' him back onto the story later or whatever. At any rate, it's a cheap trick and writers use it a lot.
Found it weird that their heads pop off when they transform... what happens if their aim is off?
yea this is from G1 season 5 which i've been lookin for. have you uploaded this anywhere?
@HeavenXxX v he is. in the japaness version of the show he and sound wave kill each other and are rebuilt.
I don't know why everyone says this is the end of Galvatron...I mean, he exploded underwater after being crushed by ice? Really? I mean, the guy was hurled out of Unicron and flew through space and ended up head first in a mud bath for years, and THIS is how he died? Honestly, I see no evidence he's actually dead...I didn't see any parts or debris floating around after the explosion. Just saying, he's most likely still alive.
Who died? But I'm not asking about Galvatron
I don't which was worst Starscream's death at the hands of Galvatron or Galvatron's death by the headmasters?
It's so weird watching Transformers in Japanese. I'm so used to watching it in English.
So THIS is what is happening to the ice caps
Actually, Headmasters, Masterforce, and Victory were dubbed in the UK when these series aired in Japan. The dubbing is horrible, and badly translated. Luckily I have all the subtitled versions.
No he was brought back as Super Megatron, Gigatron was the European name for Overlord.
I don't think he is dead. He was covered in ice when they hit the spot he is at and I don't see any body parts. I think he just frozen in ice for a time until he can get of the ice. He wil be back when some Decepticon tries to take his place.
You can't go wrong with the 1986 movie.
Agree with you, 110%
Did Galvatron ever thaw out? I only watched up to Victory, but couldn't get into it.
The series lasted 35 episodes so it ran fairly well in Japan. It lasted much longer than the weaker season 4 of the US. I'll admit that the American storylines are better but the Headmasters concept in Japan is much better than the U.S. version.
@Takeshi357 And really, any G1 fan is a friend of mine, so I'll relent about the semantics.
that wasn't really a true end to megatron, I mean all they did was bury him in ice, like that would stop a giant alien robot with a HEAT-based blaster on his arm!